Towards the end of the Summer, we (my family) moved house. We moved two hours north to the Roscommon/Mayo border.

This has put a slight dent in my quizzing calendar as I’m slowly coming to terms with living in a new place with a different quizzing ‘scene’. Truth be told, until yesterday I’d only heard of one quiz taking place and that, alas, happened on the night before my morning on the Ray D’Arcy Show quiz.

Yesterday morning, I received a call from my wife. She’d heard that there was a big quiz taking place in Claremorris later that night. “That’s great,” I said, “but unless you hear of a team looking for someone, it’s a bit short notice.”

10 minutes later she rings back. “Turns out the guy who told me about the quiz is actually looking for a fourth team member…”

I received an email from Presentable Productions at the end of last week informing me that they are currently seeking contestants for the upcoming series of Only Connect on BBC Four.

Only Connect is a particularly hard quiz in which teams of three are presented with clues/facts and have to work out the connection between them. You can find some examples of these on its Wikipedia page.